Objectives: To summarize current advances of the so-called Web 3.0 and emerging trends of the semantic web. Methods: We provide a synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2011, from which we attempt to derive a synthetic overview of the today’s and future activities in the field. Results: while the state of the research in the field is illustrated by a set of fairly heterogeneous...

Objectives: To summarize current advances of the so-called Web 3.0 and emerging trends of the semantic web. Methods: We provide a synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2011, from which we attempt to derive a synthetic overview of the today’s and future activities in the field. Results: while the state of the research in the field is illustrated by a set of fairly heterogeneous...

OBJECTIVE To bridge the divide between health informatics 'bench research' and the application of informatics in clinical and health care settings. METHOD Identifying weak points in translational activities, i.e. in the process from health informatics research outcomes to IT system design and information management in clinical practice. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS The creation of a new peer-rev...

The health information technology (HIT) implementation listserv was conceived as a way to combine a substantial portion of American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) members who belonged to four working groups (WGs): CIS, Evaluation, ELSI, and POI. Other AMIA members joined in significant numbers. It immediately became a major forum for discussing medical informatics, informatics policies,...

The rapid emergence of programmes in health informatics, medical informatics and biomedical informatics implies a need for core curricula in these diverse disciplines. This study investigated the recommended competencies for health and medical informatics, aiming to develop a framework for use in curricular development. Current health and medical programmes around the world were analysed to ass...

It is becoming an impossible task for managing research data in the field of biomedical and clinical informatics. These huge data sets cannot manually be analyzed, interpreted or processed to acquire inferred knowledge efficiently. We need intelligent agents or computer systems to help us in doing these tasks and hence it becomes mandatory to represent medical knowledge in computer process able...